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If I were a teenager today, I don't know that I'd be going out to the gravel pits or up to camp and raging like we used to, and that was not so long ago. Social media is wildly more omnipresent than it was then; when we were sitting around bonfires and drinking bud lights, most people didn't even have cameras in their cell phones. When you've got that kind of evidence spread all over Instagram and SnapChat and Facebook, with little ability to control its privacy, it changes the amount of risk involved in those activities. Unless the po-pos actually paid a visit to the shindig, or you stumbled in home the next morning stove up and reeking of beer, it was pretty easy to get away with things back then.


Smart homes and smart phones would have definitely put a damper on many of my extracurricular activities as a teenager ... house parties, sneaking out, saying I was in one place while actually in another, etc.




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